Archives for: "May 2010"
Миллиард
Let's say a young Russian student is composing an essay and decides to write “I want to earn a billion dollars” in Russian. He knows the word for million is миллион, so he figures a billion must be биллион, but, being an enterprising student, he quickly… more »
Загорать/загореть
Recently we discussed the noun tan; now, I would like to continue on the topic and discuss the usage of the verb "to tan". In Russian the imperfective and perfective forms are the following: загорать and загореть. to tan Imperfective Perfective… more »